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International law scholar Itamar Mann is joining VU Amsterdam on a Tulip Fund grant, after growing threats to academic freedom in Israel left him searching for a new place to continue his work. ‘VU is my new academic home’ advalvas.vu.nl/en/science-ed…
US and China propose hotline to de-escalate AI threats ahead of Washington summit — comms channel between both nations to be left open in case of national security threats posed by autonomous artificial intelligence tomshardware.com/tech-indust…
Prime Minister drives global work on artificial intelligence at UNGA as UK and US make history with firing from undersea drone gov.uk/government/news/prime…